Mike Krzyzewski Biography

Mike Krzyzewski is the winningest coach in men’s major college basketball history. “Coach K” is a fixture at Duke University, where he has coached the men’s basketball team to five national championships since 1980. Mike Krzyzewski played basketball at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, from which he graduated in 1969. He served in the Army until 1974, spent a year as an assistant coach at Indiana University (1974-75), and returned to West Point as head coach in 1975. He became head coach at Duke University in 1980 and quickly built the school into a perennial basketball powerhouse. The Blue Devils won NCAA championships in 1991, 1992, 2001, 2010 and 2015 while also winning many regular-season championships in the highly competitive Atlantic Coast Conference. His star players at Duke have included Christian Laettner, Danny Ferry, Grant Hill and Shane Battier. On 15 November 2011 he won his 903rd game (a 74-69 Duke victory over Michigan State) to pass Bobby Knight and become the winningest coach ever in men’s major college basketball. Mike Krzyzewski was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001.